Kadhafi says he met families of Lockerbie victims

AFP ^ | Sept. 25, 2009

[Free ThinkerNY]

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi told CNN he had met with some of the families of those who died in the 1988 bombing of a US jet over Lockerbie to offer his condolences.

"Yes, I met some of them yesterday. It was a friendly meeting," the Libyan leader told CNN in excerpts of the interview released Friday. Kadhafi is making his first visit to the United Nations in New York.

"I offered my condolences for the families who lost them. They also expressed their condolences for my daughter who was killed for the American raid in 1986," he said, speaking through a translator.

A former Libyan agent is the only person to have been convicted of the murder of 270 people when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded in the air over the Scottish town of Lockerbie more than two decades ago.

Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi was freed from a Scottish jail last month, and returned to Tripoli where he met with a warm welcome, triggering fury from the US administration and American relatives of victims of the atrocity.

Kadhafi told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that he could understand the families' sense of loss. "Of course, of course. It is a tragedy. It is a catastrophe," he said.

"No one would support an action like that or would not be touched and moved by such a tragedy. Whether it's Lockerbie or whether it is the '86 raid against Libya. We are all families of the victims."

[al baby]

WTF strange times we live in

[dalebert]

why did cnn meet with daffi

[Da Coyote]

I’d like him to meet the ghosts of the victims. In person. Even though the victims would have to put on some asbestos clothes in order to descend to where this creep’s gonna go.

[umgud]

Tell us again what you think of us infidels.

[Indy Pendance]

What a bs article. I guess this is Bush's fault by default of G HW Bush....

"They also expressed their condolences for my daughter who was killed for the American raid in 1986,"

[SevenofNine]

I read article AL Baby on CNN International twitter page one of victim family member forgive Col Quadry

I be saying what appeasing litle b****h

[SevenofNine]

Here article probably some chic from Frisco who think we are always wrong

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/25/gadhafi.meeting/index.html?eref=edition

[al baby]

I would have kicked him in the nutz

[BallyBill]

Did these people actually think Q-Daffy would not use this as a PR stunt to promote himself and make himself out as a victim? Did They?

"Useful Id...s" (I bit my lip mom and didn't say it)

[Chode]

ohh please...

[USF]

...The celebration of al Megrahi's homecoming infuriated some families of the Pan Am 103 victims.

Susan Cohen, whose daughter died in the attack, said she blames Gadhafi for her daughter's death. She emphasized that Gibson's actions do not reflect the sentiments of the families of the victims.

He still has not been held accountable for his actions... and I'm not just talking about PAN AM 103.

[USF]

Pan Am 103 families say different, Linda Gibson does not speak for them:

Libyan leader Khadafy claims he consoled grieving Lockerbie families; they (the families) say he's lying

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[SevenofNine]

Yeah I would kick Col Quadary in my spike heels